This sort of thing plays well on HN, where we're all engineers and programmers, but it assumes the reader is rational. People do not make decisions rationally.

This sort of thing plays well on HN, where we're all engineers and programmers, but it assumes the reader is rational. People do not make decisions rationally. We think and act emotionally, up to and including ideas and assumptions about each other, what constitutes acceptable behavior, and basic facts about the universe. Ordinary people don't know or care about the rules of "reasoned discourse." You're not wrong, though.